On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:17 -0400, Andy Watson wrote:
If you want to make money, sell it. If you want contributors, focus on
people that will contribute.
Ah, do you equate selling with proprietary? Another maddening myth that
seems to be put about far too often to dull the understanding of
Do you actively contribute to preventing global warming? Saving endangered
animals? Saving historic building from demolition? Feed stray cats? No. You
might care about all of these but you can't actively contribute to every cause
known to man. FOSS is among those causes.
Why should we expect
Because argument and debate aren't a waste of time so long as we're
learning.
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 10:07 -0400, Andy Watson wrote:
What do you do to help the marketing team? Maybe I can help.
http://doctormo.org/2010/08/18/reasons-to-love-ubuntu/
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I'm actually shocked that this is an argument at all. Marketing teams
market their products, not anyone else's. You don't see McDonalds marketing
for the farmers that raise the cattle where they get their beef. They
market solutions for hunger.
That's what we should be doing with Ubuntu.
So,
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:46 +0900, Bryan Ogden wrote:
I'm actually shocked that this is an argument at all. Marketing teams
market their products, not anyone else's. You don't see McDonalds
marketing for the farmers that raise the cattle where they get their
beef. They market solutions for
I don't want to repeat the same things but unless we set these kind of
things straight and record the conclusions somewhere, these discussions are
meaningless, even if you two decided on one point or another, what are you
going to do? Will anybody even know the discussion take place? You won't
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:14 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote:
I don't want to repeat the same things but unless we set these kind of
things straight and record the conclusions somewhere, these
discussions are meaningless, even if you two decided on one point or
another, what are you going to do?
I'm sorry. I just hope there were more active projects on the list.
idk the wiki has a long way to go before it becomes a decent tool.
Just for the record, FOSS has to be mentioned, always. There are a lot of
reasons for it, bust first of all, the OS is great but if it wasn't FOSS it
would just
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 18:26 -0300, Lisandro Vaccaro wrote:
I'm sorry. I just hope there were more active projects on the list.
idk the wiki has a long way to go before it becomes a decent tool.
*sigh*
So why did you complain about not writing these things down? Your not
prepared to help fix
On 18 August 2010 00:46, Bryan Ogden bry...@ogden-computers.com wrote:
I'm actually shocked that this is an argument at all. Marketing teams
market their products, not anyone else's. You don't see McDonalds marketing
for the farmers that raise the cattle where they get their beef. They
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:14 -0400, Andy Watson wrote:
I don't want to alarm anyone but a lot of people aren't programmers,
designers, translators or want to be helpful in anyway. After all, it
is just an operating system. A lot of people don't care about their
OS.
If you go and start
If you want to make money, sell it. If you want contributors, focus on people
that will contribute.
A lot of people don't care enough to contribute or donate.
Andy Watson
watson...@gmail.com
watson...@msn.com
On 2010-08-17, at 8:49 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue,
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